Film Screenings
Monday, October 15th, 7pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, Room H-110
Cinema Politica Screening of “The End of Migration”
The wind beats against a high telecom tower in Quebec. The camera finds a man on top of the tower, hardhat, safety glasses on. Several hundred feet or perhaps a thousand feet down, one catches a glimpse of forests and rivers snaking away, a small town in a bay in the distance, as when you see them from an aeroplane. Prosperous and orderly. The man is Asian and he has a smile on his face. The sounds of subway trains are heard already and we find ourselves in the belly of the earth in Vancouver.
This screening is a fundraiser for the Immigrant Workers Centre Montreal and will be followed by a Q&A with directors Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy
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Thursday, October 18th – 1pm
SSMU Building 3480 McTavish, room 302 (metro Peel)
Midnight Kitchen presents “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance”
Presented by Midnight Kitchen
The Midnight Kitchen serves pay-what-you-can vegan lunches on weekdays at 12:30 pm in room 302 of the Shatner (SSMU) building. As part of our social and political programming, we also organize educational events and workshops, support direct action and grassroots organizing, have a radical library, and distribute the MK newsletter. We also cook in solidarity for political and community based events that are keeping within our anti-oppression and political mandate.
We will be screening the 1993 documentary on the Oka Cris, “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance.” The film’s director, Alanis Obomsawin, spent 78 days and nights filming the armed standoff between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. The film creates a portrait of the people behind the barricades and provides insight into the Mohawk’s unyielding determination to protect their land.
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance by Alanis Obomsawin, National Film Board of Canada